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  • I have many services that doesn’t “need” to be public, as public facing for one specific reason. TLS.

    A lot of the times android apps won’t connect to http directions, not even local ones, and require a proper https connection with a well known CA.

    For that I put the services behind a caddy reverse proxy to get a valid tls certificate.

    And them I do the trick, and basically on caddy reject any connection that’s not local. Thus, making the supposedly “public” site a practical “local” one.

    Once there I just connect through wireguard.








  • I don’t think is a private tracker per se, or at least most people don’t use it like that. As most servers (all I know) and the Kad network is public.

    As a protocol is worse in everyway that BitTorrent.

    But it has been used for so long that the amount of antique media is amazing. It’s my last resort for when I want to find something obscure that doesn’t exist anywhere else.

    Also sharing is really simple, and the integrated search makes easy to find stuff, rather than navigate a ton of trackers or try to set up embedded search in a BitTorrent client and have it fail half the time.

    It also lacks any essential security features, it’s just blind trust based in a filename unless you got the e2k link from a forum. So I wouldn’t download an executable from there.








  • It’s a fair point.

    I’ve had diverse success using llm for coding.

    For simple things and basic questions it has worked. For anything complex. It has been a complete failure.

    But I’ve never used a paid tool, most of the time I just use self hosted LLMs. But, to be honest, I don’t think the paid tools are that much better.

    But if someone knows how to use it better. And assumes responsibility for checking the code, I’m ok with it.

    It’s just a tool like many others, it can be usedfor good or for bad.